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    administrative hierarchy. In 1601 he was again promoted, this time to Intendant at Lyon. His mandate focused primarily on improving local finances, maintaining...
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    of Moulins in 1762 and of Rennes in 1765, de Flesselles served as Intendant of Lyon (1768–1784) where he won respect as a reform-minded royal official...
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    Pierre Poivre (category Scientists from Lyon)
    18th-century horticulturist and botanist. He was born in Lyon, France. He was a missionary to East Asia, intendant of French colonial islands in the Indian Ocean...
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    Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon (CNSMDL). On 3 December 1783 Papillon de la Ferté, intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi...
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    established at Lyon in the first years of the 16th century, who had arrived at the court of France in 1543 in the train of Catherine de' Medici. In the...
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    Simon Maupin (category Architects from Lyon)
    Rhône, near the Parc de la Tête d'Or. In 1659, he was appointed intendant of dikes and works done on the Rhone. In 1659, his plan of Lyon entitled Description...
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    Municipal Organic Law (MOL). Those who make up the mayor's office are the Intendant and the administrative departments of the municipality. The Mayor is the...
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    général des finances and two of his consellors, and the intendants of finance. Conseil royal de commerce Judicial and administrative councils: Conseil...
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    and in 1602 named him intendant of finances. He took part in the principal events of the reign, negotiated the Treaty of Lyon with Charles Emmanuel I...
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    the chancelier Birague, the intendant des finances Claude Marcel, the bishop of Orléans, the comte de Cheverny and Martin de Beaune. These figures conducted...
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    Bordeaux (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    XV, under the supervision of two intendants (Governors), first Nicolas-François Dupré de Saint-Maur then the Marquis de Tourny.[citation needed] Saint-André...
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    (1511–1571) French theologian Jean Talon (1626–1694), first Intendant of New France Antoine de Chézy (1718–1798), hydraulics engineer Nicolas Appert (1749–1841)...
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    The ceremonial rooms of the Navy and the apartments of the original intendants before the Revolution have been restored. Since 2021 the building is also...
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    in 1670, and 22 in 1691. In 1670, during Jean Talon's second tenure as Intendant of New France, a French officer annexed the islands after he discovered...
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  • Saumur. His parents were Dulcide Castex, a military intendant from Agen, and Hélène Gazanchon de Chavannes, from a land-owning family in the Monts du...
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    Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon and Strasbourg each have additional tasks as heads of their regional defence and security zone (zone de défense et de sécurité). In...
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    thirty hectares, and entrusted the work to Jacques Boyceau de la Barauderie, the intendant of the royal Tuileries Garden and the early gardens of Versailles...
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    Bussang Pass (redirect from Col de Bussang)
    particularly for marine timber destined for Normandy's shipyards. The intendant repeatedly reminded timber exporters from Ramonchamp that dragging logs...
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    1686 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, who lived in the Hôtel from 1677 until 1696 The mansion was bought in 1654 by the intendant Claude Boislève...
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    Prince of San Donato. Émilien de Nieuwerkerke was the son of the Dutch Legitimist officer Charles de Nieuwerkerke (1785, Lyon – 1864, Paris), who returned...
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  • writer, chansonnier, philologist and goguettier. Intendant des finances of the comte d’Artois, Philipon de La Madelaine wrote songs, comédie en vaudevilles...
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  • increased to become by the late 17th century — under the authority of an intendant (reporting to the Controller-General of Finances) — the very framework...
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  • Arles-Avignon v Lyon Lyon v Sochaux Rennes v Lyon Lyon v Nice Lens v Lyon Lyon v Paris Saint-Germain Montpellier v Lyon Lyon v Toulouse Marseille v Lyon Lyon v Auxerre...
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    Constantinople." King Louis XIV gave it to Madame de Montespan whom later he abandoned. Nicholas Fouquet, an "Intendant of France", borrowed it temporarily to wear...
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    Gascony, and later in the 18th century they were ruled from Auch by the intendant of Auch, as with the rest of Gascony. If these Pyrenean provinces are...
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    from the time of the Consulate, and was ably assisted by Pierre Daru, Intendant General of the Grande Armée from 1806 onwards, who later held various...
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    1560 and 1789. Rennes had also been the administrative capital of the Intendant of Brittany between 1689 and 1789, and Intendances were the most important...
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    win the league in 1973. They also made the French Cup final but lost to Lyon. The club was unable to break its European jinx: Danish amateur club Vejle...
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    rows of arcades. The préfecture is located in the palace built by the intendant of Montauban (the equivalent of a préfet before the French Revolution)...
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    Kent Nagano (category Intendants of the Bavarian State Opera)
    Nagano was music director of the Opéra National de Lyon from 1988 to 1998, where he recorded, with the Lyon National Opera Orchestra and chorus, numerous...
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